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While making a proposal to update Noto fonts for OpenStreetMap tiles, which fixes an issue with Kurdish labels using ڵا , I noticed a street with mismatched parentheses and was anticipating a deep dive into the tile renderer. But the actual problem was somewhere else:
Learn how to search, query, and modify JSON data with 25 interactive jq examples and explanations
You can now create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills.
We're all addicted to our phones and many of us go to sleep with them in our hands 1 — so it's odd that manufacturers choose the default minimum brightness to be brighter than the sun.
git rebase: what can go wrong?
FPGA Development Boards for Under $150 Posted today In the dynamic world of FPGA design, breaking the bank shouldn't be a prerequisite to diving into hands-on experimentation and learning. Fortunately, a plethora of FPGA development boards have emerged that are not only feature-rich, but also surprisingly affordab
Glamorous Toolkit (GT) is the Moldable Development Environment. Version 1.0 embodies more than 6 years of development and is the result of some 14 years of research. Our goal is to make systems explainable by means of custom tools created for each problem. Glamorous Toolkit makes this possible by making the creation…
Git can “trace the evolution” of a specific method, showing you logs of how it has changed over time.
I rewrote my personal website using basic libraries and the flexibility is incredible.
Audacity 3.4 adds a musical view, time stretching and a new exporter.
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...
Meta’s Systematic Code and Asset Removal Framework (SCARF) has a subsystem for identifying and removing dead code. SCARF combines static and dynamic analysis of programs to detect dead code from bo…
In the past week I went to add Python 3.12 support to my zstandard Python package. A few hours into the unexpected yak shave / rat hole, I decided to start chronicling my experience so that I may share it with the broader Python community. My hope is that by sharing my (unfortunately painful) end-user experience that…
How to use a company's TXT records to discover the products they use.
Why we migrated OpenStatus' backend from Vercel to Fly.io using Hono and Bun — the challenges, performance gains, and lessons from the migration.
A bit of reverse engineering goes a long way
Our local libraries, The Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, issue pieces of plastic with barcodes printed on the back assigned to your borrower account. These cards are not strictly necessary in 2023; most everything at Seattle libraries is self-service, including circulation, and these…
How to run a latent consistency model on your M1 or M2 Mac
Or <em>"How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?"</em>
Perth, Western Australia - 24 Oct 2023 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Keyboard Maestro 11.0, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for macOS.
A post-modern modal text editor.
How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.
I build a lot of command-line tools in Python. It’s become my favorite way of quickly turning a piece of code into something I can use myself and package up …
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
Which is better for code reviews, a unified diff or a split diff?
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